Arab Liberation Front

The Arab Liberation Front is a minor Palestinian political group founded in 1969. The President of Iraq, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, had the group formed in 1969 as a satellite of Ba'athist Iraq, and the group was under the command of Saddam Hussein afterwards. The group was technically a part of the Palestine Liberation Organization, but it espoused Ba'athism and Palestinian nationalism, and Iraq's small Palestinian population of 34,000 supplied fighters to the group, which had a very small presence in the other countries of the Levant. In 1974, the ALF joined the Rejectionist Front, rejecting Yasser Arafat's peace negotiations with Israel and advocating a one-state solution, and the group was run by the pro-Saddam Abd al-Wahhab al-Kayyali until his 1981 assassination. The ALF would undergo a divide in 1993 when the Oslo Accords took place, with the moderate and hardline factions splitting into rival camps. Its last significance would come when Iraq gave the ALF funds to distribute to the families of suicide bombers during the Second Intifada (2000-2005), but this ceased when Ba'athist Iraq was overthrown in 2003. The ALF was sequestered in Ramallah in the West Bank afterwards, and the group has not attacked Israel since the early 1990s, with no military capabilities.